An ex­tended panel of judges of the Supreme Court of Lithua­nia has over­ruled the ap­peals filed by Kon­stantin Mikhailov, for­mer OMON of­fi­cer sen­tenced to life in the 1991 killing of Lithua­nian bor­der guards and po­lice of­fi­cers at the Me­dininkai bor­der check­point. The seven Supreme Court judges en­dorsed the rul­ings of other courts, which have ruled that the Me­dininkai Mas­sacre was part of the Soviet poli­cies to keep Lithua­nia in the Soviet Union. The Supreme Court said that in Mikhailov’s tes­ti­mony, he was not in­volved in the killings, as was de­nied by ev­i­dence con­tained in the case. The ver­dict is fi­nal and not sub­ject to ap­peals.